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A BOOK OF VIEWS 



PUBLISHED BY 

CORNELL UNIVERSITY 

ITHACA, NEW YORK 
1915 



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Foundation 

and 

Endowment 



THE COLLEGES OF 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY 

"I would found an institution where any 
person can find instruction in any study" 

— Ezra Cornell 

CORNELL UNIVERSITY was incorporated by the 
legislature of the State of New York on April 27, 
1865, and to the University there were appropriated the 
proceeds of the sale of land scrip representing nine hun- 
dred and ninety thousand acres of public lands granted 
to the State in accordance with the provisions of an Act 
of Congress, approved on July 2, 1862. The amount 
realized from the State's sale of this land scrip was 
$688,576.12. 

Toward the endowment and maintenance of the new 
university, Ezra Cornell, at its foundation, donated 
$500,000, and two hundred acres of land with useful 
buildings, along with several smaller gifts for special 
purposes. 

A large portion of the land scrip sold by the State of 
New York was purchased by Ezra Cornell under contract 
providing that the profits derived from the sale of the 
lands should accrue to Cornell University. Under this 
contract of purchase, and by the wise administration of 
Ezra Cornell and the Board of Trustees through its Land 
Committee, of which Henry W. Sage was for many years 
chairman, Cornell University has up to August 1, 1914, 
realized $5,040,383.85. 

Cornell University was opened on October 7, 




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BRIDGE OVER NORTH GORGE. FALL CREEK 
Leading to Prudence Risley Hall 




A RAINY DAY 
On the Way to the Library Past McGraw Hall 



The 
University 



The Faculty 

and 

Enrollment 



The 
Colleges 



The University is at Ithaca, New York, a city of fifteen 
thousand inhabitants, located at the south end of Cayuga 
Lake. The University Campus, lying high on the slope 
of the hills east of the town, commands an exceptionally 
beautiful view of the western hills and of the valley and lake. 

In 1914 the University, including the Medical College 
in New York City, had approximately one hundred and 
seventy-seven professors, one hundred and eleven assistant 
professors, and four hundred and sixty instructors and 
assistants, a total of approximately seven hundred and 
fifty persons on the staff of instruction. 

The student enrollment for the year 1914-15 was five 
thousand three hundred and forty. 

The following colleges and departments comprise the 
University: 

The Graduate School (degrees A. M., M. M. E.. 
Ph. D., etc.). 

The College of Arts and Sciences (degrees A. B., 
B. Chem.), 

The College of Law (degree LL. B.), 

The Medical College (degree M. D.), 

The New York State Veterinary College (degree 
D. V. M.), 

The New York State College of Agriculture (degree 
B. S.), 

The College of Architecture (degree B. Arch.), 

The College of Civil Engineering, including Hydraulics 
and Sanitary Engineering (degree C. E.), 

The Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and the 
Mechanic Arts, including branches of Mechanical, Elec- 
trical, Industrial and Mining Engineering (degree M. E.). 

The Summer Session comprises work in several col- 
leges and is conducted for six weeks in July and August. 



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The 

Graduate 

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The College 
of Arts 
and Sciences 



The purpose of the Graduate School is to provide the 
student with the method and discipline of original research, 
to the ultimate end that he may contribute to the advance- 
ment of knowledge. In furnishing this opportunity for 
independent study and investigation, the Graduate School 
seeks to make the conditions such as will enable the student 
to devote himself wholly to his chosen field. Unhampered 
by the restrictions that necessarily obtain in undergraduate 
work, he will come into freedom of association with older 
scholars, who will seek to make his work profitable to him 
by giving such aid and direction as he may need. 

The branch of knowledge to which the student intends 
to devote the larger part of his time is termed his major 
subject. The other fields of study selected, which will be 
necessarily more restricted in their scope and which should 
in general be selected with reference to their direct bearing 
upon the major subject, are termed the minor subjects. 
Candidates for the Doctor's degree are required to select a 
major subject and two minor subjects; for the Master's 
degree, a major subject and one minor subject are required. 
Three years of residence is the minimum requirement for 
the Doctor's degree, and one year for the Master's degree. 

The College of Arts and Sciences aims to provide 
opportunity for the acquisition of a liberal education. 
Except in the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of 
Chemistry, the College lays down no fixed curriculum, 
but allows its students, with four restrictions, to follow 
their own interests. The College also cooperates with 
the technical and professional colleges of the University, 
and with the Graduate School, by affording to such as 
desire it the preliminary training needed for advanced 
work in any department of knowledge. The material 
equipment of the College includes Goldwin Smith Hall, 




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devoted to instruction in the humanities and one of the 
finest buildings for this purpose in the United States. 
The College The preparation afforded by high schools and acade- 

of Law mies is generally not an adequate foundation for profes- 

sional study. This has been shown by experience and is 
now recognized by those most interested in legal educa- 
tion. The College, therefore, offers two courses of in- 
struction, one extending through four years and the other 
through three years. 

The four-year course is designed primarily for those 
students who have only the preparation afforded by high 
schools and preparatory schools. The first year of this 
course consists almost entirely of studies pursued in the 
College of Arts and Sciences. It includes a single law 
subject, torts. Of the subjects in Arts and Sciences three 
are prescribed, the remainder are elected by the student, 
but his election must be made with the advice and consent 
of the Dean of the College of Law. A year of carefully 
selected college work is thus afforded preliminary to pro- 
fessional study. 

The three-year course is designed for college graduates 
or for those who have completed at least one year of college 
work. It includes only law subjects, with a limited oppor- 
tunity after the first year for electing subjects in Arts and 
Sciences. Both courses include the same law subjects, 
and both are designed to afford a thorough training in the 
principles of Anglo-American law, in both the substantive 
law and the law of procedure. 
The The aim of the Medical College of the University is 

Medical ^ot alone to train practitioners of medicine of the highest 

College possible efficiency, but also to ground its students so thor- 

oughly in all the fundamentals of modern medicine that 
they may be prepared to take an active part in the progress 



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The Central Avenue Bridge over Cascadilla Gorge Main South Entrance to the Campus 




UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 
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The New 
York State 
Veterinary 
College 



The New 
York State 
College of 
Agriculture 



of medical science, as physicians, as teachers, and as in- 
vestigators. To accomplish this, it is necessary that the 
students shall enter upon their medical course only after 
a thorough preparatory training. Such a training may be 
obtained by a satisfactory college course which shall in- 
clude at least a year's specified work in Physics, in Chem- 
istry, and in Biology. To students thus thoroughly 
prepared for the medical course, the faculty are able to 
offer an exceptionally strong course and, with the small 
classes, to give an unusual amount of individual attention. 
As stated in the act to provide for the administration 
of the State Veterinary College: "The State Veterinary 
College, established by chapter 153 of the laws of 1894, 
shall be known as the New York State Veterinary College. 
The object of the said Veterinary College shall be: to con- 
trol investigations as to the nature, prevention, and cure 
of all diseases of animals, including such as are communi- 
cable to man and such as cause epizootics among live 
stock; to investigate the economic questions which will 
contribute to the more profitable breeding, rearing, and 
utilization of animals; to produce reliable standard pre- 
parations of toxins, antitoxins and other productions to 
be used in the diagnosis, prevention and cure of diseases, 
and in the conduction of sanitary work by approved 
modern methods; and to give instruction in the normal 
structure and function of the animal body, in the pathol- 
ogy, prevention and treatment of animal diseases, and in 
all matters pertaining to sanitary science as applied to 
live stock and correlatively to the human family." 

In 1906 the Legislature passed an Administration Act 
defining the purpose and activities of the College of Agri- 
culture thus: "The object of the said College of Agricul- 
ture shall be to improve the agricultural methods of the 



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state; to develop the agricultural resources of the state in 
the production of crops of all kinds, in the rearing and 
breeding of live stock, in the manufacture of dairy and 
other products, and in determining better methods of 
handling and marketing such products, and in other ways; 
and to increase intelligence and elevate the standards of 
living in the rural districts. For the attainment of these 
objects the college is authorized to give instruction in the 
sciences, arts and practices relating thereto, in such courses 
and in such manner as shall best serve the interests of the 
state; to conduct extension work in disseminating agricul- 
tural knowledge throughout the state by means of experi- 
ments and demonstrations on farms and gardens, investi- 
gations of the economic and social status of agriculture, 
lectures, publications of bulletins and reports, and in such 
other ways as may be deemed advisable in the furtherance 
of the aforesaid objects; to make researches in the physical, 
chemical, biological and other problems of agriculture, the 
application of such investigations to the agriculture of 
New York, and the publication of the results thereof." 
The College The purpose of the College of Architecture is to give 

of Architec- j-}^g j^ggt training possible within the time limits of a 
'■"^^ college course; to give the fundamentals at least of that 

broad cultural training universally recognized as essential 
to the success of men who must meet others of the most 
varied training and experience, and who must work with 
them as professional advisors on important problems in- 
volving not only questions of personal taste but also 
business problems of great magnitude; and, at the same 
time, to give a thorough training in the science and art of 
an exacting profession which on the one hand touches 
closely the engineering professions and on the other is 
itself one of the fine arts. 



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The College 
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Sibley 
College of 
Mechanical 
Engineering 



The usual college course as at present established is 
of four years' duration, with opportunities for graduate 
work. In recent years, however, technical standards and 
technical efficiency in practice have advanced so rapidly 
and so far, and demand for broad education in addition to 
professional training is becoming so pronounced that a 
four-year course is no longer adequate to meet the highest 
demands. It is therefore strongly advised that the stu- 
dents plan whenever possible to spend five years or even 
six, rather than four, in collegiate work, taking not only 
advanced professional studies but also additional work in 
the humanities. 

The courses of preparatory and professional studies in 
the College of Civil Engineering have been planned with 
a view to laying a substantial foundation for the general 
and technical knowledge needed by practitioners in civil 
engineering so that our graduates, guided by their schools, 
may develop into useful investigators, designers and con- 
structors. 

The facilities for instruction and for advanced investi- 
gators are believed to be thorough and efficient. Labora- 
tory work is required in chemistry, geology, mechanics, 
and testing materials. In addition to the special library 
and laboratories of the college, all the other libraries, col- 
lections and laboratories of the University are open to 
civil engineering students. 

Sibley College is organized not only to teach the 
fundamental principles that underlie the various branches 
of mechanical, electrical and mining engineering, but also 
to give such practical training and such instruction in the 
economics of engineering as is possible in a technical 
school. In addition to giving this broad fundamental 
instruction, it is intended to prepare the student for 
entering one or more of the following special fields: 



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A. Electrical Engineering. 

B. Heat-Power Engineering. Steam Engineering or 
Internal Combustion Engineering. 

C. Structural and Plant Engineering. 

D. Ship Design and Construction. 

E. Industrial Engineering. 

F. Mining Engineering. 

Summer In establishing the Summer Session as an official and 

Session integral part of the academic year the Trustees of the 

University provided by resolution that so far as possible 
instruction for high school teachers should be given in it 
including all subjects of secondary education. This was, 
and continues to be, the primary object of Cornell's Sum- 
mer Session: to advance Education by helping those en- 
gaged in it. Due recognition is made of the proper rela- 
tions of instruction in subject matter and in methods of 
teaching, and teachers in every kind of school, and in 
nearly all grades, find provision for their own improve- 
ment. 

But the scope of the Summer Session has advanced 
far beyond this original plan. It is attended now not only 
by teachers, but by many undergraduates of Cornell and 
of other colleges, who wish in this way to shorten the 
period of residence for their degrees and to enlarge their 
training by taking subjects not available in the winter, 
or not given in their own colleges. Advanced students in 
the most varied fields find here in the summer a rare 
combination of opportunity for out-of-door work in pure 
or applied science with the library and laboratory facili- 
ties of a great university plant. 



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Photographs by John P. Troy, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Plates by Hurst Engraving Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
Printed by The Morrill Press, Fulton, N. Y. 



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